After becoming a chaotic daughter

——"Edogawa, do you want to make chocolate together?"

Standing at Nanako's table, the squad leader with neat short hair extended an invitation to Nanako who was still reading.

The short winter vacation is over, and the third semester of this school year will begin in a blink of an eye.Compared with the first two semesters, the third semester is particularly short, only about a month, and the last week is the exam week, and the students hurry up to review, so as not to get a bad score at the end of the school year.

Entering February, with the arrival of the final exam, it is a day that will make students' hearts flutter just by mentioning it - 2.14 Valentine's Day.

"Isn't Valentine's Day next week?" The monitor said brightly, "The exam is coming soon, and our semester is coming to an end soon. I just want to ask the girls in the class if they want to come to school together on weekends." Let’s make chocolate and relax a bit. I’ve already borrowed the venue from the cooking company, as long as I buy some ingredients myself, when the chocolate is ready, I can give it to classmates or acquaintances in the class.”

The monitor is a very organized girl, although she just asked Nanako casually like this, it sounds like she should have already planned everything out.

But Nanako didn't want to give anyone chocolate, and she couldn't make chocolate herself.Her cooking skills are only at an edible level, Nanako is completely clueless about things that sound very difficult, such as "making desserts".

If she wanted some chocolate, she could go to the convenience store or the coffee shop downstairs to buy it.

Feeling that it would be troublesome, Nanako shook her head and rejected the squad leader's invitation: "I don't want to send chocolates, so I won't go."

"?" The squad leader showed a slightly surprised look on his face, "Aren't you going to give your boyfriend chocolate?"

The squad leader asked Nanako in a very natural tone, without any intention of being ironic or probing, just a look that simply felt a little strange.

A question mark slowly appeared above Nanako's head.

--Boy friend?What boyfriend?Why didn't she know that she had a boyfriend?

Nanako, who was "made friends out of nothing", was a little confused.

She raised her head to look at the monitor, her dark eyes lacked any brilliance, she stared intently at the monitor standing next to her: "...boyfriend?"

"It's the boy who sometimes comes to pick you up after school... Uh, he shouldn't be your brother?" The monitor said, meeting Nanako's expressionless gaze, and suddenly felt uncertain again.

It's been a school year, and when she has no club activities, when she leaves school after school, she occasionally meets a boy with silver-white hair and a three-strand braid hanging down her back to pick Nanako up.The young man doesn't look like Nanako, his facial features are obviously foreigners or mixed race, he doesn't look like Nanako's older brother, although there are not many girls in the same grade who are in love, but it is not rare, she I thought it was Nanako's boyfriend.

But Nanako's appearance doesn't seem like she was mentioned as "boyfriend".

Knowing that the squad leader was referring to Gogol, Nanako was no longer confused, and replied in a calm tone, "It's not my brother, nor my boyfriend."

"Ah..." Realizing that he had made a mistake, the squad leader clasped his hands together and made an apology gesture. He was too embarrassed to ask Nanako who the boy was, "I'm sorry, sorry, I misunderstood."

"It's okay." Nanako shook her head, not paying attention to her words.

"Then you continue to read, and I will ask other students." The class leader said, wanting to find someone else, but still felt a little pity, and asked again, "Are you really not coming? It doesn't have to be sent For boys, everyone will make 【Friend Chocolate】."

Although she said so, Nanako still refused her invitation.If she made "friend chocolate", she could only give three rounds, but that would cost unnecessary money for three rounds, so she would give her chocolates in return.In that case, it's better to save the money and go eat octopus balls with them after school.

During the lunch break, Nanako also asked about Miwa.

It was still winter, and the weather was very cold. They didn't go outside, but stayed in the classroom to eat bento together.

"Chocolate?" Miwa heard Nanako's question, and remembered what the class monitor had asked her in the morning, so she knew that Nanako was talking about Valentine's Day chocolate, "No need. If you want to make chocolate, you have to buy the ingredients. It feels a bit wasteful to make it once, and the materials for making chocolate are quite expensive.”

They always talk about money matters very directly, without even a little euphemism.

When I was young, Miwa thought that Nanako’s family was as poor as hers, so they always bought cheap stationery together, seldom ate snacks at the school gate, and walked home together after school.

Later she found out that Nanako’s family was actually in a pretty good family, but Nanako was always saving money very seriously. Although she didn’t work part-time like her, Nanako always cared about comparing the cost-effectiveness of things when spending money. There is not much difference in the concept of treating "money".When Miwa and Nanako go out to play together, they never have to worry about how much money to spend - after all, the two of them hardly spend much, and usually just eat a small cake.

"The weather is too cold, let's go eat oden together on the weekend." Miwa said plainly as usual.

"Yeah." Nanako poked the pickled radish in the bento box with her chopsticks, and made a more modest suggestion, "You can go to Hanako's house to eat."

Go to Hanako's house, and then call Kunikida, and they can have a free meal of Kunikida's delicious oden.

"Okay." Miwa agreed, she took a bite of the rice ball, thought for a while, and said, "Actually, even if you make chocolate, it's just Giri chocolate, and there is no boy you want to give... Valentine's Day chocolate , I really want to give it to the boy I like, right?"

Nanako doesn’t understand this very well. In her perception, Valentine’s Day should be to give chocolates to people she likes, but there are also “giri chocolates”, “friends’ chocolates” and even “your own chocolates” in Japanese customs. It seems that Valentine's Day can be given to anyone with chocolate, and I don't know what it has to do with Valentine's Day-maybe this is a conspiracy by the store to promote chocolate.

Miwa didn't know what he was thinking of, turned his head, and suddenly asked Nanako curiously: "Nanako, what kind of boy do you like?"

"I don't know." Nanako answered her with a meal, and answered quickly, as if she answered without even thinking about it.

Sanlun held up his chopsticks and said solemnly, "Then think about it carefully."

So Nanako chewed the rice in her mouth, thought about it seriously, and after 30 seconds, she answered Sanwa dryly: "...I can't think of it."

"Hmm..." Miwa frowned and slender eyebrows pondered for a while, and then asked Nanako in a different way, "Then if you were to spend your whole life with someone, what would that person be like?"

"..."

Nanako didn't answer right away. She lowered her head and her eyes fell on the green pepper that was picked aside in the lunch box. After thinking for a while, she still couldn't figure it out.

She never thought about this kind of thing, she has always buried her head in the life in front of her, like climbing a mountain, walking step by step, moving forward as far as she can see.Now she lives with her father and Gogol. Although she may not be able to continue to live like this when she grows up, it will be several years later.

"I can't think of it." Nanako still answered Miwa like this, paused, and asked her, "How about you, Miwa?"

"—he's a handsome guy."

Answer in three rounds.

After she finished speaking, she sighed again: "But if I want to live my whole life, I really hope to be a stronger and gentle boy... But that's what I'm saying now, and when that time comes, maybe I will like it." The last guy who wasn't handsome at all and had a stupid mouth."

"Suddenly there will be a feeling in my heart-'ah, it's him', like this feeling."

Three rounds said.

It is very in line with the answer of ordinary girls, both fantasy and pragmatic, living a down-to-earth life while occasionally having a little sweet dream.

Nanako let out a "hmm".

She thought for a while and asked herself the question three times, but she still couldn't think of an answer. She just felt that life like this is good.

When school was over, Gogol came to pick up Nanako at the school gate.

Gogol doesn’t always come to pick up Nanako. Except when the weather is bad, he usually comes to pick up Nanako once in a week or two. He says “come to pick up Nanako”, but in fact it’s more like “going out to play.” A day later, I will stop by Seigaku and go back to the detective agency with Nanako."

In the weather in early February, the temperature was barely above ten degrees, and the air was icy cold, making Nanako's cheeks a little pale.

The weather is so cold, but the uniform is still a short skirt. Although Nanako is wearing a long coat, thick socks, a scarf, and a woolen cap, when the cold wind blows, she is still shivering from the cold, and her body is so stiff that she does not even want to move. move.

Gogol took off his own scarf, wound it round and round, and put it around Nanako's neck again.She wore two scarves, half of Nanako's cheeks were covered, and she buried her face in the scarves, which still carried Gogol's body temperature.

Boys are probably like this, even in winter, the body still exudes heat like a small stove.

Nanako felt a little warmer, her face, which had been stiffened by the wind, became soft again, the blood flow resumed, and her face gradually became a little red.

She stood on the platform with Gogol and waited for the bus, remembering what the class monitor had said about the chocolate in the morning.

"Guuoguoli." She shrunk her head, half of her face was hidden in the scarf, her voice was so soft that it sounded a little fuzzy.

Gogol turned his head to her side: "What?"

Nanako looked at the road with little traffic in front of her, without turning her dark eyes: "Do you want some chocolate?"

"What chocolate?" Gogol asked her.

"Eating chocolate." Nanako answered him.

Gogol had a thoughtful expression on his face, he thought for a while, and then said to Nanako: "Mr. Ranpo should want to eat."

Nanako shook her head: "Grandpa said Dad can't eat chocolate anymore."

During the first lunar month, both the family and the detective agency bought too much candy. Recently, the idiot dad has been eating candy every day.He ate too much candy, Luanbu started to have a toothache a few days ago, the president told him to go to the dentist, and confiscated all his candies and snacks.

"Then do you want to eat chocolate?" Gogol asked Nanako, shaking the little braid hanging down the back of his head.

Nanako scratched her head, and accidentally tilted the beanie. She put the beanie back and put it on again, and then answered Gogol: "...I want to eat cake."

"Then let's go back later and go to the coffee shop to eat cake." Gogol said lightly.

"Oh." Nanako replied, and stood quietly for a while, then remembered that Gogol hadn't answered his question, so Nanako asked him again: "Then do you still want to eat chocolate?"

Gogol's golden eyes were slightly bent, and there was a light smile on his face, as light as a bird's feather: "If I want it, will you give it to me?"

"Yeah." Nanako answered him.

Gogol didn't go to school, and probably no one would give him chocolates in the detective agency. If she didn't, Gogol would have no chocolates.Ranpo can't eat chocolate, so Nanako just plans to buy a box of chocolates for Gogol.

Gogol let out a "huh", and after a few seconds, he asked again: "What kind of chocolate?"

Nanako thought for a moment, then answered him: "Nuts."

Nuts are more delicious, she likes to eat nuts chocolate.

"Okay." Gogol didn't have any objection, and agreed kindly.

When the bus arrived, Nanako wrote down the matter of buying chocolates for Gogol, took Gogol's cloak, and boarded the bus with him.